Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With regard to governmental corruption, the traditionally tame Far Eastern Economic Review reported the following in 1970: "Its corruption, lethargy and indifference is as great if not greater than it ever was. Few people living under its rule actively support it. American officials have been unable to push for basic reforms due to the political necessity of getting on with the Lao civilian and military elite so that continued American bombing will be permitted...
...while in the '50s and early '60s, when sales dropped and the industry appeared headed for extinction. In a world where almost anything was possible and usually visible on a 21-in. screen, outracing a locomotive or buzzing around like an ugly bug in drag seemed somehow tame and tedious. Young readers today, the comic men soon discovered, are more interested in their own problems and the problems they see around them. It is possible, indeed, to see the comics as an art of the people, offering clues to the national unconscious. Superman's enormous popularity might...
...TRYING to tame a tiger by throwing him raw meat when he growls menacingly is a risky strategy. Yet the Nixon Administration is following just such a policy in foreign trade, attempting to appease protectionists by placing curbs on the imports about which they howl loudest. Last month the Administration bludgeoned Japan into setting "voluntary" quotas on shipments of textiles. Now it is trying to persuade Italy, Spain and Japan to similarly restrict sales of shoes to the U.S. These moves expand a record that includes such earlier items as the "temporary" 10% surcharge that Nixon slapped on many imports...
...father dying of cancer, and ever since then he has suffered from insomnia. That was how he came to live in "the night country," a place of fear and uncertainty, where the rules of daylight no longer apply, and the animal with the yellow eyes is no longer tame. Once you have come to know the night country, you remember it even when the sun is shining...
What was Castro up to? On one level, Allende hoped that the Cuban revolutionary's presence would sanctify his own efforts to tame Chile's obstreperous unions and mollify the extremists who want to turn the country into a pure socialist state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold...